Todd Group

Publications

Relevant publications:

  • Todd, Z. R., Wogan, N. F., Catling, D. C. (2024) Favorable environments for the formation of ferrocyanide, a potentially critical reagent for origins of life. ACS Earth Space Chem, 8, 221-229.
  • Todd, Z. R., Lozano, G. G., Kufner, C. L, et al. (2024) UV Transmission in prebiotic environments on early Earth. Astrobiology, 24, 559-569.
  • Cohen, Z. R., Todd, Z. R., Wogan, N., et al. (2023) Plausible Sources of Membrane-Forming Fatty Acids on the Early Earth: A Review of the Literature and an Estimation of Amounts. ACS Earth Space Chem, 7, 1, 11-27.
  • Ranjan, S., Abdelazim, K., Lozano, G. G., et al. (2023) Geochemical and Photochemical Constraints on S[IV] Concentrations in Natural Waters on Prebiotic Earth. AGU Advances, 4, e2023AV000926.
  • Todd, Z. R., Cohen, Z. R., Catling, D. C., et al. (2022) Growth of Prebiotically Plausible Fatty Acid Vesicles Proceeds in the Presence of Prebiotic Amino Acids, Dipeptides, Sugars, and Nucleic Acid Components. Langmuir, 38, 49, 15106-15112.
  • Cohen, Z. R., Todd, Z. R., Catling D. C., et al. (2022) Prebiotic Vesicles Retain Solutes and Grow by Micelle Addition after Brief Cooling below the Membrane Melting Temperature. Langmuir, 38, 44, 13407-13413.
  • Todd, Z. R., Lozano, G. G., Kufner, C. L., et al. (2022) Ferrocyanide survival under near ultraviolet (300-400 nm) irradiation on early Earth. Geochim Cosmochim Acta, 335, 1-10.
  • Todd, Z. R. (2022) Sources of Nitrogen-, Sulfur-, and Phosphorus-Containing Feedstocks for Prebiotic Chemistry in the Planetary Environment. Life, 12, 8, 1268.
  • Ranjan, S., Kufner, C. L., Lozano, G. G., et al.  (2022) UV Transmission in Natural Waters on Prebiotic Earth. Astrobiology, 22, 3, 242-262.
  • Janicki, M. J., Kufner, C. L., Todd, Z. R., et al. (2021) Ribose Alters the Photochemical Properties of the Nucleobase in Thionated Nucleosides. J Phys Chem Lett, 12, 28, 6707-6713.
  • Todd, Z. R., Szostak, J. W., Sasselov, D.D. (2021) Shielding from UV photodamage: Implications for Surficial Origins of Life Chemistry on the Early Earth. ACS Earth Space Chem, 5,2,239-246.
  • Todd, Z. R., Fahrenbach, A. C., Ranjan, S., Magnani, C. J., Szostak, J. W., Sasselov, D. D. (2020) UV-driven deamination of cytidine ribonucleotides under planetary conditions. Astrobiology, 20(7):878-888.
  • Todd, Z. R. and Oberg, K. I. (2020) Cometary delivery of HCN to the Early Earth. Astrobiology, 20, 1109-1120.
  • Todd, Z. R., Szabla, R., Szostak, J. W., Sasselov, D. D. (2019) UV Photostability of three 2-aminoazoles with key roles in prebiotic chemistry on the early earth. Commun. 55:10388-10391.
  • Ranjan, S., Todd, Z. R., Rimmer, P. B., Sasselov, D. D., Babbin, A. R. (2019) Nitrogen oxide concentrations in natural waters on early earth. , Geophys., Geosys. 20(4):2021-2039.
  • Roberts, S. J., Szabla, R., Todd, Z. R., Stairs, S., Bucar, D.-K., Sponer, J., Sasselov, D. D., Powner, M. W. (2018) Selective prebiotic conversion of pyrimidine and purine anhydronucleosides into Watson-Crick base-pairing arabino-furanosyl nucleosides in water. Comm. 9:4073-4083.
  • Ranjan, S., Todd, Z. R., Sutherland, J. D., Sasselov, D. D. (2018) Sulfidic anion concentration on early earth for surficial origins-of-life chemistry. Astrobiology18(8):1023-1040.
  • Xu, J., Ritson, D. J., Ranjan, S., Todd, Z. R., Sasselov, D. D., Sutherland, J. D. (2018) Photochemical reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide using sulfite and ferrocyanide. Commun. 54: 5566-5569.
  • Todd, Z.R., Fahrenbach, A. C., Magnani, C. J., Ranjan, S., Bjorkbom, A., Szostak, J. W., Sasselov, D. D. (2018) Solvated-electron production using cyanocuprates is compatible with the UV-environment on a Hadean-Archaean Earth. Commun. 54:1121-1124.